On the ME3 ending and the canon update to come 8(

[hellodeadpeople]

Look, Peaches, I'm thrilled just the fact I've got hair is enough to put you near on wetting yourself - you're easy to please and that's just fucking dandy - but I'm not exactly jumping for joy at the prospect of getting updated to my frie-- Commander... assimilated with the overgrown Transformer-wannabe fucks we've been trying to annihilate this whole time.

So don't mind me while I give a resounding 'kindly go fuck yourself' if that's where you end up going with this.

Just wanted to put that out there.

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[reigninginstars]

Sounds like quite the problem, Jack.

[hellodeadpeople]

Uh huh. So how'd you end up going? I hear becoming one with the assholes and floating off like the shiny little martyr you are isn't the only way it can work out.

[reigninginstars]

It's not, there's apparently more ways than one.

It was a tough choice but I ended up destroying the Reapers.

[She rubs at her neck and glances away, not really liking the choice she made. She didn't want the geth to be destroyed, but it had to be done.]

... It also meant the geth went with them.

[hellodeadpeople]

So's what I heard. [ Her Shepard couldn't go for that one, which meant losing her. She gets that it'd be a hard choice, especially after knowing Legion, but still. Well. That's why they don't leave the decision making to her. ] You live through it? Or go out with 'em?

[reigninginstars]

If you call gasping on your final breath living, then yes.

Hell, it'd take a lot more for them to take me out. I don't stay down so easily.

[twiceadays]

If it helps, apparently the rumor is that I was indoctrinated. [8Db because that... makes it better?]

[hellodeadpeople]

[ :|... Get out. ]

You really suck at this helping thing, boss. Make that two punches - one for fucking off and the other for getting your dumb ass turning into a robo-zombie.

[twiceadays]

[A long pause before she rubs the back of her neck awkwardly.] I couldn't... All that work, Jack. All those races, the army I had to put together... I couldn't let the geth die, I couldn't destroy the relays.

[She doesn't even know why she's talking about this, Jack. Congrats.] And I couldn't take away your choice in becoming some weird hybrid.

[hellodeadpeople]

'Cause I'm not used to having whatever else done to me. [ she gives a shrug. The truth is, she'd take that above Shepard biting it. Jack doesn't do 'friend' often. Or ever. Shepard's too good to lose to bullshit like this. ]

Yeah, well, I'll see you two years from now when you pull your space-jesus bullshit again, 'kay? [ She's pretty sure this time is fairly final, but still. ]

[twiceadays]

I wasn't going to take another choice from you, Jack. [:c Look, she didn't want to do thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat. Not after all she had done! That whole guardian bullshit really rubs her the wrong way.]

I only pulled that because of Cerberus, you know.

[hellodeadpeople]

I'm flattered you thought of me while the galaxy was ending. [ She might actually be but w/e w/e. You're too good, Shepard. ]

I have faith in your stupid luck.

[twiceadays]

I thought of you all. [Come on, Jack. You knew she would have thought about the people closest to her.]

You're getting soft. [Pokes her arm.] Definitely squishy.

[fightforthelost]

Just about slipped up there, Jack.

[hellodeadpeople]

Bite me, Commander.

[fightforthelost]

[He just keeps RIGHT ON going, because renegades love to push.]

Didn't know you cared.

But hey, not like it matters to me. First time through? I blew the hell out of the Reapers.

[hellodeadpeople]

I don't. [ Excuse you, Renegade-Shep, she rejects your reality and replaces it with her own. ]

Atta' boy. What gave you the change of heart for the second time?

[fightforthelost]

Not like I had the choice. Mun's a bit of an ass.

[hellodeadpeople]

Baw, by bad Commander Shepard getting shoved around by a little human glued to a keyboard, all forced to make nice-people choices? Poor thing.

[missedtwoyears]

Almost makes the city of never-ending angst look cozy, doesn't it?

[It's entirely too dry to be serious. She doesn't like any of the choices, but she'll make one anyways, because who the hell else is going to do it?]

[hellodeadpeople]

Scions make the city of never-ending angst look cozy. Zombie mannequins, I'm cool with. Risen dead with cannons strapped to their backs? Not so much.

[pinkspectre]

[There's a moment where she wants to pat Jack's shoulder, and a moment of her own shoulders sagging in defeat.] Jack...

[Then she straightens her shoulder back up, standing tall like a proper leader should.] It had to end. All of it.

If you still want to, you can punch me.

[hellodeadpeople]

[ The tone already has Jack frowning at her. Her expression goes somber for a moment, and she may legitimately be mournful for a moment. But Jack doesn't do Feelings, so she shrugs it off, joking instead - though the tone may be missing the normal sarcastic amusement. ]

Nah, don't feel like breaking my hand on your metal, Reaper ass. Or whatever the hell you are now.

[gayloveinterest]

[ He really can't even reply to that. So he's just going to be staring for a moment. Shepard had warned him about Jack. Still, he wasn't quite prepared for that.]

[hellodeadpeople]

[ Have the flattest stare ever, Cortez. If she remembered you past 'that dude who flew the shuttle' she may have more to say. ]

You need something, starshine, or just here for the show?

[gayloveinterest]

Sunshine?

[ He said with a slight smirk before he shook his head slightly. He should really be use to nicknames now. Knowing James.]

For what it's worth. I miss the Commander as well.

[hellodeadpeople]

I could go with 'Princess' or 'Cupcake' if it makes you feel better.

[ Vega has nothing on her nicknames, excuse you, sir. ]

Did I say 'miss'?

[normandy7]

Maybe if you're lucky, they'll go with one of the better options.

[Because seriously? That choice? Not the best of 'em.]